Growth & Marketing

My cost per click looks fine but nobody buys. Where do I even start fixing this?

A starting point

A cheap click that doesn't convert is almost always a landing page or offer problem, not an ad problem. Check the handoff first: does the page match the ad's promise, does it load fast, and is the next step obvious? Fix the page before you touch targeting or bids, because you're already paying to send people somewhere that loses them.

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Hand-picked from around the web, each with a note on why it earns your time.

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Why we picked it Adam Erhart is a marketing strategist who explains the click-but-no-buy problem plainly, without jargon or hype. He walks through the exact gap you are hitting: the ad earns the click, then the offer and the page ask for more than the visitor is ready to give. It is a concrete, watchable teardown of why paid traffic stalls right after the click.

The REAL Reason Your Facebook Ads Are Not Converting (And How To Fix It)

On YouTube (Adam Erhart) by Adam Erhart About 10 minutes

The REAL Reason Your Facebook Ads Are Not Converting (And How To Fix It)
  • Clicks measure curiosity, not intent. The real failure usually sits in the offer and the page after the click, not in the ad itself.
  • A weak or mismatched offer is the most common silent killer: if what the page asks for does not match what the ad promised, people leave.
  • Fix the whole path from ad to offer to page as one message, rather than endlessly tweaking the ad creative in isolation.
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Read

✍️ Essay
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Why we picked it This is written from the point of view of the person who clicked your ad and then left, which is exactly the founder standing in your funnel. It names message match (also called ad scent) as the most common reason cheap clicks go nowhere: the ad promised one thing and the page says another, so the visitor quietly bounces. A good, honest place to start before you touch anything else on the page.

I Wanted to Convert on Your Landing Page, But I Couldn't. Here's Why.

From Unbounce by Amy Middleton Hebdon About a 10 minute read

  • A click is not a contract. The ad, the keyword, and the landing page all need to be about the same thing, or the visitor feels they landed in the wrong place and leaves.
  • Gating basic information behind a form, or making the offer unclear, creates just enough doubt to kill the sale even when the click was cheap.
  • Fix the page from the customer's questions and fears, not from cosmetic design tweaks like colours and button styles.
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Use

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Why we picked it This is the standard free tool for measuring how your page actually performs, and it defaults to a mobile view, which is exactly what you want when most of your visitors are on a phone. It runs your page on a throttled connection and gives you real Core Web Vitals plus a prioritized list of what is slowing you down. Start here: measure before you change anything, so you know whether your fixes actually helped.

PageSpeed Insights

From Google (web.dev) by Google A test runs in under a minute per URL

  • Run the mobile test first and read the Largest Contentful Paint number, that is your real load feel on a phone.
  • The Opportunities and Diagnostics sections tell you exactly what to fix, usually oversized images and render-blocking scripts.
  • Field data (real Chrome users) beats the lab score when it is available, so trust that number more.
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